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Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 18:14:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [DOC] Mention what happens when the thread of a thread-specific breakpoint is gone.
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To: Pedro Alves <alves.ped@gmail.com>
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> Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 18:54:46 +0100
> From: Pedro Alves <alves.ped@gmail.com>
> CC: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> >> +Thread-specific breakpoints are automatically deleted when
> >> +@value{GDBN} detects the corresponding thread is gone.
> >                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > I'd say "thread exits" instead.
> 
> That was on purpose.  It's what GDB says too.  That's because
> there are other ways for a thread to disappear other than
> a regular thread exit, such as "detach", "disconnect"
> or gdb losing the remote connection, etc.  The thread hasn't
> really exited in those cases.

Then let's mention those other possibilities as well.  "Is gone" is
too vague and too slang.